School: Ballynarry

Location:
Ballynarry, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
E. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 007

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 007

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    I went for a walk through the corn field one day I found a thing which was very nice to eat, it was neither flesh, meat feather or bone and in three weeks it could walk alone.
    A hens egg.
    How may quarters in the moon
    four.
    What's smells first When you go in to a chemist shop
    Your nose.
    What part of a cow goes into the byre first
    Her breath.
    When I went into on younder gap I saw a table and in table there was a drawer and in drawer there was a cup and the cup there was a sup and every one shall taste it
    Death.
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